Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 26
Sometimes she wore a mantle of pure white kapa and rested on the ledge of rock overhanging the torrents of water which in various places fell into the sea.
Who acts: Poliahu, torrents · What happens: wear, rest, overhang, fall · To what, where: mantle, ledge, torrents, various places
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poliahu, torrents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 wore | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wore | nsubj |
| 3 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mantle | det |
| 5 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wore | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 kapa | case |
| 7 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kapa | amod |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kapa | amod |
| 9 | kapa | kapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mantle | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rested | cc |
| 11 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wore | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ledge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ledge | det |
| 14 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rested | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rock | case |
| 16 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ledge | nmod |
| 17 | overhanging | overhang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 rested | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 torrents | det |
| 19 | torrents | torrent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 overhanging | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 torrents | nmod |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 places | case |
| 24 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 places | amod |
| 25 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fell | obl |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 torrents | acl:relcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 sea | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sea | det |
| 29 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Poliahu | a mantle of pure white kapa | sometimes property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mantle=Source | |||
| 2 | rest | participle | Poliahu not said here | the ledge of rock | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ledge=Location | ||||
| 3 | overhang | gerund | Poliahu not said here | the torrents of water | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme torrent=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | the torrents of water | various places | into the sea | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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